DAVID NOUR

​CEO of The Nour Group, Inc., Senior Management Advisor, International Speaker, and Best-Selling Author. ​David Nour is a growth strategist, thought leader and global keynote speaker on Relationship Economics®, the concept of the quantifiable value of business relationships.

MEET DAVID NOUR

​David Nour is a growth strategist, thought leader and global keynote speaker on Relationship Economics®, the concept of the quantifiable value of business relationships. Through his best-selling books, compelling speeches and valuable consulting, Nour demonstrates how relationships are the greatest off-balance-sheet asset any organization possesses, large or small, public or private. He is a popular speaker and delivers over 50 global keynotes a year explaining the hidden assets of relationships, and the art and science of investing in them.

He is CEO of The Nour Group, Inc., a consulting firm that advises top global leaders and boards of corporations, associations and academic forums on disruptive innovations to fuel their growth. The Nour Group, Inc., has worked with leading global companies such as Disney, Cisco Systems, Deloitte Consulting, Hilton Worldwide, HP, IBM and more. As a speaker, Nour examines business relationships, social and mobile disruptive technologies and adaptive innovation. His keynotes have been heard at top industry summits like Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit and Marriott Annual GM Conference, among others.

His insights on driving growth through unique return on strategic relationships have been featured in top outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Mashable, CNBC, Knowledge@Wharton and Associations Now, as well as Entrepreneur and Success magazines. He also writes a regular column for The Huffington Post. Nour is also the author of several books, including the best-selling Relationship Economics (Wiley) as well as ConnectAbility (McGraw-Hill), The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Raising Capital (Praeger) and Return on Impact (ASAE) called by Fast Company a “resource-rich book … provoking us to become more customer-centric in an age where empowered customers have far greater access to real-time information, connections and company advocates.” His forthcoming book CO-CREATE (St. Martin’s Press) is an essential guide showing C-level leaders how to optimize relationships, create market gravity and greatly increase revenue.

In addition to his speaking, writing and consulting, Nour has guest lectured at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and Georgia Tech’s College of Management. He serves as the lead independent director on the board of introNetworks, a privately held intelligent community technology firm based in Santa Barbara, Calif. An Eagle Scout, Nour is involved with the Centennial Scouting movement, Junior Achievement, One Voice – aiming to create peace in the Middle East – and the High Tech Ministries. He is currently an active member of the FBI Citizens’ Academy, Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where he has earned the Governance Fellow accreditation.

A native of Iran, Nour came to the U.S. with just a suitcase, $100, limited family ties and no fluency in English. He went on to earn an Executive Master’s of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and a bachelor’s degree in management from Georgia State University. Nour resides in Atlanta, Ga., with his family.

SUGGESTED KEYNOTE TOPICS

Return on Impact – How Will You Lead Differently.Based on David Nour’s most recent book, Return on Impact – Leadership Strategies for the Age of Connected Relationships, this session focuses on how disruptive technologies such as social and mobile have helped swing the power pendulum to members and customers while many industries and organizations continue to get eliminated. Return on Impact isn’t about Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. It’s about socially enabling the organization to listen louder and think faster, so it can respond in real time to changing market dynamics while also adapting new revenue models, reinventing itself and growing its bottom line, top talent and deep relationships.

Relationship Economics – The Art and Science of Relationships.David Nour’s most acclaimed keynote based on the best-selling book, Relationship Economics® Updated & Revised, has been delivered to over 500 corporate, association and academic forums to date. This dynamic session focuses on the quantifiable value of business relationships and a systematic process to identify, build, nurture and leverage personal, functional and strategic relationships. This session offers exceptional value to most audiences are the battle-tested best practices in bridging relationship creation with relationship capitalization.

Adaptive Innovation – Adaptable Business Models for Changing Market Demands.How do you create greater market value than your competitors? How do you help your channel partners differentiate your products or services? Simple – disrupt your value chain! Adaptive innovation, by definition, is destructive in its character, open to a broad base of business models and must be driven by high performing teams, focused on maximizing the current and future capabilities of their respective organizations. In order to create sustainable competitive advantage, companies must develop a relationship-centric culture with the courage to fail and learn from those failures. Audience members leave this session with the game plan they need to think and lead differently in a way that moves business forward.

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